The second part of this article identifies the technological developments which will influence future organisational structure and design.

Focuses on organizations that compete through technological advantage, instead of personal service or access to raw materials. Identifies three types of capability: supplemental capability; enabling capabilities; and core capabilities. Research shows that there are always sharp discontinuities...

Exposes Greek philosophers' (Herodotus, Parmenides and Empedocles) sayings and the commonsense that they are based on. Posits that change is one modern‐day word to suffer by comparison and managers must be aware that change does not always become necessary for negative reasons ‐ change does...

Proposes that changes are usually encapsulated in the classical theory of post‐industrialism, with regard to the information revolution. States there are two different information models: the service economy model; and the industrial production model. Looks at global interdependencies in work,...

Profiles two types of technological change — sustaining and disruptive. Employs an inset of definitions explaining technology, innovation, sustaining technologies and disruptive technologies. States a lack of understanding about the strategic difference between sustaining and disruptive...

TIME HORIZONS AND TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Issue and the Approach -- THE APPROACH AND METHOD OF THE STUDY -- DO U.S. CORPORATE EXECUTIVES HAVE SHORT TIME HORIZONS? -- MACROECONOMIC EVIDENCE: RELATIVE RATES OF INVESTMENT IN FIXED...

Technology & Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Ralph Landau: Engineer, Entrepreneur, Scholar -- How Competitiveness Can Be Achieved: Fostering Economic Growth and Productivity -- THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN GROWTH -- GROWTH IN THE UNITED STATES VERSUS JAPAN -- THE...

Computer Chips and Paper Clips -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS, VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I OVERVIEW -- Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF AMERICAN WOMEN -- OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGING TECHNOLOGY -- POLICY PERSPECTIVES -- Framing the...